Fundamentum eterne felicitatis o[mn]ibus ho[min]ibus vtilissimu[m] : sedecim signa p[er] que [con]iecturare possumus alique[m] fore de numero electoru[m] vel damnatoru[m] : vt in fine

by: Quentell, Heinrich, -1501, printer; Martin, von Werden, -1518?, attributed name; Druckerei Retro Minores, attributed name

Publication date: 1498

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Publisher: [Cologne : Heinrich Quentell]

Collection: bplscinc; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: Latin

Signatures: aa-bb⁸ cc-dd⁴ ee⁸.

Chancery octavo; aa8 verso: 30 lines plus headline, 95 (101) x 66 mm; types: 150 (title and headings on cc2 verso and ee6 verso), 110 (pagination, headlines, and headings), 63 (text); title page vignette; initial spaces with guide letters.

"Colonie p[er] Henricum Quentell anno domini M.cccc.xcviij. feliciter impressi."--Colophon (ee8r)

Printing has also been attributed to the Druckerei Retro Minores and Martin von Werden (for Quentell)

Dating "before September" from Incunable short title catalogue

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 312

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 10426

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, F331

Incunabula short title catalogue, if00331000

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy BT900.F86 1498x sewn but not bound. Rubricated in red with initials in blue and red. Housed in a purple cloth four-flap wrapper with the title stamped in gilt along the spine. Leaf dimensions: 135 x 98 mm. Purchased from H.P. Kraus in 1989.